I Swear by the Blood Below My Feet
Jesse Walker | November 12, 2004, 4:56pm
If you get a lot of e-mail from disappointed Democrats -- and it seems to be a part of my job description that I do -- then you may have seen a site called fuckthesouth.com. Neal Pollack saw it too, and he called bullshit:
I was born in Memphis, grew up in Phoenix, got married in Nashville, went on my honeymoon in North Carolina, and live in Austin. Many dear friends grew up in and still reside below the Mason-Dixon Line. The South is diverse. It's varied. And yes, it's ignorant in many ways. But I've never lived in a more segregated place than Chicago, the epitome of a great Northern city, and have never seen as much concentrated poverty and injustice in this country as when I lived in Philadelphia, the birthplace of our Constitution. So spare me the superiority rap.
The south gave us Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Michael Jordan, Hank Williams, Tennessee Williams, fried chicken, Gone With The Wind, Truman Capote, pecan pie, barbecue, Mark Twain, and manned flight. The list goes on and on....If you say 'fuck the South," you're saying fuck Nashville and Charlotte and Charleston, and Atlanta, and Austin, and New Orleans, and Athens, Georgia, the city that gave us the B52s and R.E.M. and...OK, well, fuck R.E.M. But that has nothing to do with the South.
[Via Undernews.]
Henry | November 12, 2004, 7:43pm | #
The South also gave us Randy Newman, who, among many other treasures, gave us "Rednecks":
Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show
With some smart ass New York Jew
And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox
And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too
Well he may be a fool but he's our fool
If they think they're better than him they're wrong
So I went to the park and I took some paper along
And that's where I made this song
We talk real funny down here
We drink too much and we laugh too loud
We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town
And we're keepin' the niggers down
We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol' boys from Tennessee
And colleges men from LSU
Went in dumb. Come out dumb too
Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues
And they're keepin' the niggers down
CHORUS
We're rednecks, rednecks
And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground
We're rednecks, we're rednecks
And we're keeping the niggers down
Now your northern nigger's a Negro
You see he's got his dignity
Down here we're too ignorant to realize
That the North has set the nigger free
Yes he's free to be put in a cage
In Harlem in New York City
And he's free to be put in a cage on the South-Side of Chicago
And the West-Side
And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland
And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis
And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco
And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston
They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around
Keepin' the niggers down
CHORUS
Ken Shultz | November 12, 2004, 8:28pm | #
George Washington, Joe Gibbs, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, The Shenandoah Valley (There is no more beautiful place in the continental United States.), The Whisky Sour, The Mint Julip, The Chesapeke Bay Retreiver, The Hunt Cup, The Preakness, The House of Burgesses, William & Mary, The Smithsonian, Hell yes--Fried Chicken, The Naval Academy, Crab Cakes, Edgar Allen, Jamestown, Williamsburg, Matt Drudge, The Walter Reed Medical Museum (Is that still open?), Babe Ruth, Bad Brains, The Meatmen, Minor Threat (Straight Edge), Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, DMX, Booker T. Washington, Jousting, Frederick Douglas, Secretariat, Hush Puppies, Frank Zappa, HL Mencken, Harriet Tubman, Francis Scott Key, The Skipjacks, Appomattox Court House, The Chincoteague, tobacco, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech...
...and that's just from Maryland/Virginia.
joe | November 12, 2004, 9:05pm | #
"I too have lived in Chicago, and in Boston, and without question these two northern cities have much worse race relations than any Southern city I have experienced. I found race relations in Richmond, Virginia to be quite relaxed, for instance."
Northern racism and Southern racism are quite different. It isn't a matter of one being more racist than the other, but of the intimacy between the races. In the South, people of different races were always in close contact, even in each others houses. For people throughout most of the history of the North, even in the towns, people could go months without seeing a black person.
As a result, the South developed all these codified manners, laws, and geographies to maintain the separation between the races. While in the north, very little effort had to be made. There were practically no opportunities for adult males of different races to come to know each other, and possibly come to see each other as friends. The distance black people had from the centers of power in the North just perpetuated themselves, because the black people themselves were physically and socially distant. In the South, white supremacy had to be actively maintained, because there was always the "danger" that people would act like human beings and relate to each other as individuals, which is normal when people get to know each other. In the north, only the lowest classes of white people came into contact with black people on a regular basis. Black people were treated more like outsiders in the north, while they were treated more like children or charges or posessions in the south - part of the us, but a subordinate part.
So there was lot less to overcome in the North in terms of legal equality, but in many ways, achieving actual integration of society has been a lot harder. Massachusetts has a proud history of advancing legal racial equality, from abolitionism to Reconstruction to the civil rights movement, but I could count on my fingers the times I've had a black person to my house for dinner. Not because of any hostility or prejudice, but because I've so rarely found myself in a situation where issuing the invitation would make sense.
Whether RC's impression that race relations in the South are "quite relaxed" stems from the greater familiarity, or the universal, automatic adherence to the norms developed to keep things "relaxed," I couldn't say.
Fabius Maximus | November 12, 2004, 11:55pm | #
I cannot abide these slurs on the third state, New Jersey.
The glorious battles or the revolutionary war, the heroic regiments of the civil war and the famed "Jersey Blues" 44th Infantry Divison.
Joyce Kilmer and Vince Lombardi both have turnpike service areas named after them.
Name another governor with the nerve to name the Brendan Byrne Arena after himself?
As corrupt as California but not ashamed of it.
"Trenton makes, the world takes."
It's the most densely populated state - somebody must like it.
They know how to criticize the public school system; they shoot up the schools with the NJANG.
All those refineries means the gasoline is cheap.
And they're a hotbed of the justly famed such as Queen Latifah, Allen Ginsberg, Debbie Harry, Martha Stewart, Frank Sinatra, Ernie Kovacs, Thomas Paine, Patti Smith, William Carlos Williams, Joe Black, Grover Cleveland, Aaron Burr, Hariet Tubman, etc., etc., etc.
In the words of a school song " ... it's the one and only university, situated in celebrated New Jersey."
The South is OK. If you really must live there or if you like it, knock yourself out. Me, I'm staying in the Garden State.
Torquemada | November 13, 2004, 1:06pm | #
"You know, I'm sure there are a lot of intelligent, enlightened, innovative people living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but this doesn't change the fact that the kindgom as a whole is a back-asswards hellhole. Likewise, there are plenty of intelligent, non-racist, non-religious fanatics in the South, but not enough to change the flavor of the area as a whole."
Here are a few differences between the South and Saudi Arabia:
-We let our women drive, and wear skimpy clothing in warm weather. Boy, do they ever exercise their rights, especially the last one!
-Members of minority religions are free to coexist in full freedom and equality, unlike in Saudi Arabia where only one religion (Sunni Islam) is legal. By the way, Virginia was adopting its Statute of Religious Freedom and supporting freedom of conscience while Saudi Arabia - not to mention backwaters like Massachusetts and Connecticut - were still groaning under the weight of established churches.
-Southerners, unlike Saudi Arabians, don't have so many hangups about pork products.
"I loved it a few years back, when South Carolina decided to keep the Confederate stars-and-bars on its state flag, and then, when the NAACP called upon people to boycott the state as a result, South Carolina whined that it was being 'victimized' by the NAACP's 'intolerance.'"
I don't exactly like the politics of victimization, but it's fun to use the slogans of the diversity-and-tolerance crowd against them.
thoreau | November 13, 2004, 6:22pm | #
As long as we're talking about regional pride, I might as well mention that a while back I reworked Adam Sandler's Hannukah (sp?) song to sing the praises of Wisconsin. Here's what I remember now:
Put on your cheese wedge, hey,
Come to Wisconsin, hey,
So much fun, yah, hey,
To live in Wisconsin, hey.
Wisconsin is a state with lots and lots of snow,
Instead of one winter season we have 8 crazy months,
So when you feel like the only kid in town who's rooting for Green Bay,
Here's a list of people from Wisconsin,
Just like you and me:
Chief Justice Rehnquist likes to do the polka,
So do Tom Snyder and the late Malcolm X, yah!
Guess who ate their chili at the George Webb's in Milwaukee:
Frank Lloyd Wright the architect and Senator McCarthy.
Golda Meir's from Wisconsin, the Violent Femmes are too,
Put them together,
Get a singing cheesehead Jew,
You don't need lots of sun or a beach to have a party,
Cuz you can ride a Harley with comedian Chris Farley! (both from Wisconsin!)
So put on your cheese wedge, hey,
Come to Wisconsin, hey,
So much fun, yah, hey,
To live in Wisconsin, hey.
OJ Simpson--Not from Wisconsin!
But guess who is, his houseguest Kato Kalin,
We've got Bob Uecker and Laverne and Shirley,
Harrison Ford went to college in Wisconsin--not too shabby!
Some people think that Wheezer's from Wisconsin,
Well they're not, but guess who is,
The Bodeans and Garbage!
So many cheeseheads are in showbiz,
Da Yoopers aren't cheeseheads but I heard their agent is.
So go and tell Chicago, hey,
FIBs* can beat Wisconsin, hey,
Hope I get a new bowling ball,
And the Packers win the Superbowl,
So drink your Old Milwaukee, hey,
As the Packers win in Green Bay,
And the Badgers beat UCLA,
Be a happy happy happy happy Cheesehead hey!
*Fucking Illinois Bastards
joe | November 13, 2004, 8:31pm | #
Dan, how about living for a few years in DC and Maryland, and having a succession of roommates who nattered on about the Confederacy, and put out Confederate flags. Let me see, sharing living quarters with people from North Carolina, Virginia (twice), Tennessee, and hickville Florida. Maybe you should stop assuming so much about people.
"I mean, seriously -- "Scotch-Irish heritage"? You'll have to look long and hard in any Southern city to find someone who gives a shit about that."
Um, a couple of people, actually.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=southern+heritage+scotch+irish&btnG=Google+Search
"The problem with this line of thinking is that those people who identify themselves as Capital S Southernors, if not actually racists themselves, [do a bunch of stereotypical crap Joe saw on "Hee Haw"]"
I'm pretty sure that the footage of state capitol buildings in North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Virginia - each and every one of which has the Confederate battle flag flying alone, or as part of the state flag, didn't run on Hee-Ha
Yeah, it's all in my head, there's no organized racism tied to "Southern Identity," no one in the south identifies with the Confederacy, and certainly, no one's politics consider the protection of Confederate symbols to be important enough to, say, win numerous state ballot initiatives.
Could you possibly be assuming unwarranted things about the political culture in places that vote the way you want them? Oh no, you wouldn't do that.
joe | November 13, 2004, 8:53pm | #
"Kind of like joe and his attitude about the South"
joe on this thread, "It's not a North/South thing. That's dumb."
"Northern racism and Southern racism are quite different. It isn't a matter of one being more racist than the other"
"I've got no problem with southerners. But (people who fly the flag of a racist political movement, identify "Scotch-Irish" heritage as a defining characteristic of the South, link their political identity to, at the least, anti-anti-racism, and continually idealize a socio-economic system in which had the subjugation of black people as its central organizing principle) make racial identify way too much of their self image for my taste." (Distinguishes between ordinary people from the south, and a small class of activists).
"I made many of the same points you did in disitnguishing between southerners (people from a geographic area) and Capial S Southerners (people who identify with Confederate Culture.)"
So I've dumped on people who attacked the south, went out of my way to point out that those who fit the stereotype are not the norm, and defended the south against the charge that racism is worse there than in the northeast.
Yet I get to be cast as the wicked bigot, impugning the honor of half the country, because cetain people need to feel persecuted to justify their own hostility towards northerners.
Loot at Pro Libertade: "Strange how many of the intellectual heavyweights in U.S. history come from down here" No one has suggested this is strange at all.
" I'm originally from Alabama and managed to graduate cum laude from a Northern law school. My Tennessean father worked on Apollo as a programmer. With a degree and stuff." Again, no one has suggested this is at all remarkable.
"As much as everyone thinks we all run around with hoods around here..." Everyone who?
I guess you people just KNOW that we're all prejudiced against people from the former Confederacy. Because, I guess, that's how all of us are.
Andrew | November 13, 2004, 9:41pm | #
Fuck you all I?m from Texas! We in Texas would be better off on our own! We?d be richer than Hong Kong was!
But seriously, I have been here 17 years. It is the most tolerant and vibrant place in world. It is a land of immigrants from around the world. It has more people speaking more languages and actively practicing more versions of more religions than anywhere in the world. Come and make the culture richer, and learn to love funny hats, Willie Nelson and real barbeque (as well as active democracy and one of the best economies on the world).
Please come to Texas! Just be sure to have as open mind.
Learn to love guns (or to at least appreciate how a person can truly LOVE a gun). Be independent (but ? unlike Willie Nelson ? pay your taxes ? and we don?t have a state income tax). Live in one of the three largest cities in the country. Cash in on the boom in Laredo. Or make a fortune in Houston. Like NY or SF, Houston has everything a city lover would want. Live in Austin if you like crazy people (or think that the rest of us are crazy). Enjoy the many awesome state parks, the forests, Big Bend National Park, the Hill Country, great rivers, scenery, and friendly people. Just don't be condescending. The first Europeans settled here before anybody dropped anchor in Plymouth. Visit ancient Spanish ruins ? the rebuilt missions are interesting. Don't tell us how much you wish it were more like New Jersey or some other Northern or Southern place (whatever redeeming elements they may have). Throw a fit about the scandals that horrify us, (e.g. Tulia; Jasper; the grandfathered refineries that spew so much mercury in the Gulf that I can?t eat the fish I catch; and those few, but vocal, nuts who want my children to pray to their God at school) but please be constructive about it. Do like most Texans and take a good look at your own home before you shame someone else. Reform, enjoy how integrated Texas has become, pay no respect to the bigotry that does exist, and have good manners. Be open minded about capital punishment, but protest it if you must. Allow prayer if it is not in your face. Get a gun. Don't complain about my gun. Put some spice in your grits. Learn Spanish. Enjoy the rich musical heritage. (Fuck Nashville.) Slap you neighbor on the back and eat some of our fajitas, crawfish, barbeque, or the great food you get in Houston?s Chinatown. Don?t use barbeque as a verb. And use beef with a sweet sauce.
And don't say "Fuck Texas" or we'll kick your ass.
You don?t have to make a pilgrimage to the Alamo, but at least watch the 1997 movie Lone Star if you won?t join us. It might surprise you. Or watch Dazed and Confused, or Office Space, or that great scene in that otherwise crappy movie Twins, when they go to Houston, steal the tacky car, but the owner doesn?t mind when they explain the situation to him, or better yet, that great scene from Pee Wee Herman?s Big Adventure when he goes to San Antonio.
Even if you must stay where you are, please, tolerate the tacky, discuss what is important without yelling, and laugh at Texas because we ask for it ? but this is not ALL of the time. (But did you hear about the state representative who staged a phony assassination attempt on his life, but got busted when his brother-in-law whom he promised to pay for shooting at him got drunk and bitched about having not been paid yet? It is a true story.)
Anyone who generalizes (whether seriously or as a rotten joke) about what little he or she thinks they know like the anonymous ?Fuck the South? poster did, is being foolish. God I?m so glad that whomever wrote that piece is not my neighbor. He wouldn?t last a week here.
Ken Shultz | November 14, 2004, 12:17pm | #
"Could it be because the ancestors in question lived in a country that fought a war in order to hold onto the right to own slaves, and then when that failed, instituted a series of Jim Crow laws that lasted for a century until activist judges struck said laws down?"
A small minority of the people who fought for the south owned slaves. It might follow that the rest of them weren't any more enthusiastic about getting blown apart for slavery than you would be about getting blown apart for Microsoft.
...and just because there were vocal people in the North who fought the war to end slavery, doesn't mean that everyone in the North was fighting for that reason. Anyone who's studied US Grant, a slave owner, for instance, knows that, for him, it was almost entirely about preserving the Union.
There were people in the South who were against slavery. There were black slave owners. In the Shenandoah Valley, many small farmers didn't own any slaves at all. There were free blacks who had their farms burned to the ground. People in the north can go on and picture Scarlet O' Hara if they want to, but why ignore all the diversity?
If I had to hazard a guess as to why my ancestors are so maligned by the people of the north, I would guess that it's an attempt to soothe their conscience. They try to justify the barbarism of their ancestors with the delusion that the people they victimized weren't really human. That's not hard to imagine, is it? Of all the times that armies have been used to target civilians specifically, I can't think of a single instance in which the authority in question didn't work to dehumanize their intended victims in the minds of soldiers. Go ahead, rape the women, kill the old and the children, burn their farms to the ground, it doesn't really matter, they're
slave-holders.
...even if they aren't.
As for Jim Crow, once again, if you look above, you'll see that I said our next national monument ought to be to Martin Luther King. He's my hero. Black leaders throughout the Jim Crow period stood in the face of the Klan and the police, they fought and died for freedom against incredible odds. I'm proud of them. They're all my heroes. That is to say, as a white Southerner, they're important to me as part of
my cultural heritage. Besides my general hatred of stupidity, the thing I hate about being portrayed as the cultural descendant of racist white idiots is that it strips me of my black cultural heritage.
Do
you understand that? The black civil rights leaders of the South, as well as the slaves, are as important to my Southern identity as the farmers of the Shenandoah Valley. When people from the North so grossly mischaracterize my ancestors and me, it's an attempt to strip me of my culture.
They just don't seem to get it. Maybe they're afraid of embracing the black roots of their own culture.
Andrew | November 14, 2004, 1:51pm | #
If you are a Southerner, you don't need to be explained the complex social relations in the South before the Civil War, or the revolutionized changes that came with that war and, a century later, with the Civil Rights Movement.
My ancestors didn't own slaves. They just had their homes invaded and destroyed. One actually fought for the North because he lived near where some Union soldiers were occupying, and got to know them.
There was lots of tension between the wealthy slaveholders and the non-slaveholders. In the middle, were the majority of slaveholders (but a minority of the population) who owned one or tow people and worked next to them for the same long hours, and lived in the same buildings, or very close by. Only a bitter racism and fear of Black revolution held them together.
I wish that Northerners could understand that overcoming this racism is the prime element of Southern history and the Southern identity today. They might learn from it. You may have sung, "We shall overcome." But we are the only people who had to work at overcoming.
Southern clichés about the North were destroyed when Sherman burnt down the Georgia and other campaigns destroyed the South for generations to come. Only bitterness remained. Northern clichés about the South remain the norm to this day among so many people, and not just the insular people who would think that the "Fuck the South" website is funny--or is based in reality. Southern bitterness and sensitivity would be long gone if Northerners would realize the changes that have come about or if they actually studied Southern history.
But the mean-spirited clichés continue because the South is generally more conservative than the North or the West Coast. Southern conservatives, on the other hand, now with national influence that was once monopolized by the North in business, politics, culture and media, are tempted to say, "Fuck you after all of these years." or "Why don't you secede is you don't like it." But of course, upon close examination of regional and national history, we are all forced to recognize that Lincoln was right about Union, even if he had to burn down most of the South to keep it. He was probably right about Reconstruction too, but of course that never happened.
Oh, and to echo Torquemada's points, I am one of many Jewish Southerners. Read the book "Jewish Stars of Texas" for a great history of Rabbis in Texas. They were, and remain, well intigrated and respected leaders in cities and towns across the South.
Ray | November 15, 2004, 3:36am | #
Friends, don't be duped into joining these polarizing arguments pitting some of us against others. Just for a moment, consider some essential facts about the election.
John Kerry is a good man, but he conducted a terrible campaign. His campaign was a painful exercise in evasions, ambiguity, mixed signals and duplicity. Every appeal to the popular base of the Democratic Party was invariably balanced by reassurances to corporate sponsors. Kerry's criticisms of the war in Iraq were followed by earnest declarations of his unyielding support for the war on terror. He was for increasing the taxes on the rich, but not by very much. He was for critical social programs, but only if they could be justified on a pay-as-you-go basis. The campaign motto, should have been "Absolutely, but not really." The Republicans were right when they mocked Kerry as a flip-flopper.
Today, many among us consider the re-election of George Bush to be nothing less than some kind of systemic breakdown, and conspiracy theorists with the tin-foil hats take that to an absurd degree. But, when you really think about it, it would have been some kind of modern miracle if Kerry had actually been elected. He offered nothing concrete, only change. In time of war "change" is a hard sell. Always has been. It had almost noting to do with religious fundamentalism, embryonic stem-cell research, gay marriage, red v blue, north v south, east v west, or even an ignorant electorate. Those false arguments are the red-herring constructs of paid politicial consultants, media spin-doctors, and campaign communication directors (on both sides) intended only to divide us. They are not OUR issues. They did not spring up from the voice of the electorate. But post-election these so-called issues were emphasised to obfuscate the failure of those political hirlings to "deliver the goods" after taking millions of dollars. They blammed "ignorant voters" for their failures. What a load of crap.
But, did the best man win? Maybe, maybe not. Was there really any difference between the two? Maybe, maybe not. The point is, the majority voice of America was heard. It doesn't matter if the margin is 5 million or just one vote, the majority has spoken. That is, after all, the basis of our democracy and we like it that way, regarlesss of what France thinks. Let us use our rich intellect and our boundless energies to defeat those who would destroy America. They are among us. They are not imaginary. Given the chance they will surely kill each of us as easily as they killed 3000 people just like us on 9/11. They are the enemy. They are real. They are here.
Stevo Threadkiller | November 15, 2004, 12:52pm | #
Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, I always thought of myself as a Northerner. (No matter what the rest of the country thinks. We stayed in the Union.)
However, whether it be a sympathy for the underdog or my contrarian streak, I find I have a growing sympathy for the people of the Occupied Southern States.
I think my sympathy started when Spike Lee's movie Malcolm X came out, and "Malcolm X" caps were briefly trendy. At that time, I was looking at caps in a shop and saw one with a Confederate flag on it and the words, "You wear your X, and I'll wear mine."
At the time, I thought that was rude and provocative. Then I thought about it. I think the point was this:
The Malcolm "X" caps could stand for many things, including any of the following:
- I don't like white people.
- I'm not looking for trouble; just leave me alone and don't try to push me around.
- I like Spike Lee's movie.
- My homies are all wearing this cap and I want to fit in.
Similarly, the Confederate flag could stand for many things, including any of the following:
- I don't like black people.
- I'm not looking for trouble; just leave me alone and don't try to push me around.
- I like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Charlie Daniels.
- My homies are all flying this flag and I want to fit in.
However, at this time all I ever heard was "the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism, period" and that just got my back up.
Oh, BTW:
"..a southern man don't need him around anyhow"
That song's about George Wallace, you know. Let's not give joe any more ammunition, okay?
Is the song about George Wallace? I think that particular line is about Neil Young.
Well, I heard Mister Young sing about her.
Well, I heard ol' Neil put her down.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A "Southern Man" don't need him around anyhow.
Torquemada | November 15, 2004, 9:26pm | #
"It doesn't matter if the margin is 5 million or just one vote, the majority has spoken. That is, after all, the basis of our democracy and we like it that way, regarlesss of what France thinks."
Actually, Presidential elections in the U. S. are based on the electoral vote, not the “majority” of the popular vote, and thank God for that! If you think electing the President by a nationwide popular vote is a great idea, just look at France. We’re a republic, not a democracy; a union of states, not a consolidated nation-state. A say this as a third-party supporter who is considerably disadvantaged by the current system.
“As someone who grew up in the evil state of Massachusetts and has lived most of her life in New England and NY/PA/NJ area”
I’d like to offer an olive-branch to the Northern states by mentioning some of their good qualities. For example, some of the greatest states-rights/secession rhetoric came out of New England in the early nineteenth century. Also, numerous Northern states stood up for states’ rights on the eve of the Civil War, when the South, blinded by short-term considerations, used the federal government to promote federal centralization via the Fugitive Slave Act. New York, Rhode Island and others stood up for states’ rights during the dark era of federal Prohibition in the 1920s. Also in the 1920s, the great state of Massachusetts went to the U. S. Supreme Court in a vain attempt to stop an unconstitutional federal spending law (Massachusetts v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447 (1923)). So I graciously acknowledge your proud history of resisting federal tyranny.
“the south is the one that is constantly defended and sympathetically portrayed in the movies . . .”
Which movies are you thinking of? *Deliverance?* *Easy Rider?* *Inherit the Wind?* *Mandingo?* *Mississippi Burning?* *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre?* *To Kill a Mockingbird?* Yeah, Hollywood certainly spares no effort in trying to make Southerners look good!
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